Tensers Floating Duckblind
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Celebrim
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Mobile Wizard Assault Platform:
1) Twin internally locking access hatchs, allows quick entry and egress regardless of orientation of platform, while preventing assailant from reaching wizard inside.
2) External walls have lip which slightly overlaps underlying forceplate. Lips have L-shaped bars on pivots such that they may be locked around underside of plate, and fastened from inside. This means that fortress cannot be tipped without tipping plate as well. It also means that the interior space can be greater in diameter than the diameter of the forceplate.
3) Fortress is ringed with blades to allow fortress to be pressed againt attackers in close quarters.
4) Internal screw jacks allow fortress to be elevated to a height of 1', so as to renew ritual in field.
5) A tower shield is suffient to provide nearly total protection for a person of average height. It weighs 45lbs. It stands to reason that six barriers of similar size could provide an enclosure, with a weight of around 300 lbs. Counting equipment, a dome, and other features here described, the total weight of the structure wouldn't exceed 500lbs. One of great enough diameter to give an archer room to fire probably wouldn't exceed 800lbs.
So using the floating disk to provide a platform for a floating mantlet seems doable.
The way to get this past a DM is to use the platform in the totally expected 'reasonable' way on a test run. Use it to ferry treasure, or a wounded friend - something that the DM 'wants' you to be able to do. If the disk can follow you up staircases and across normal woodland terrain, you are in good position to commission your tensor's floating fortress from local craftsman.
1) Twin internally locking access hatchs, allows quick entry and egress regardless of orientation of platform, while preventing assailant from reaching wizard inside.
2) External walls have lip which slightly overlaps underlying forceplate. Lips have L-shaped bars on pivots such that they may be locked around underside of plate, and fastened from inside. This means that fortress cannot be tipped without tipping plate as well. It also means that the interior space can be greater in diameter than the diameter of the forceplate.
3) Fortress is ringed with blades to allow fortress to be pressed againt attackers in close quarters.
4) Internal screw jacks allow fortress to be elevated to a height of 1', so as to renew ritual in field.
5) A tower shield is suffient to provide nearly total protection for a person of average height. It weighs 45lbs. It stands to reason that six barriers of similar size could provide an enclosure, with a weight of around 300 lbs. Counting equipment, a dome, and other features here described, the total weight of the structure wouldn't exceed 500lbs. One of great enough diameter to give an archer room to fire probably wouldn't exceed 800lbs.
So using the floating disk to provide a platform for a floating mantlet seems doable.
The way to get this past a DM is to use the platform in the totally expected 'reasonable' way on a test run. Use it to ferry treasure, or a wounded friend - something that the DM 'wants' you to be able to do. If the disk can follow you up staircases and across normal woodland terrain, you are in good position to commission your tensor's floating fortress from local craftsman.
Graf
Explorer
Then I apologize.
Floating around on the disk would be pretty neat (it's basically just a special effect since it's got the same move, so not abuse).
You probably can't run though... maybe a dis-ad on those grounds.
I'd be more likely to put it as the shtick for a war wizard from eberron who was crippled during the last war but still adventures. (I.e. as an NPC thing).
Floating around on the disk would be pretty neat (it's basically just a special effect since it's got the same move, so not abuse).
You probably can't run though... maybe a dis-ad on those grounds.
I'd be more likely to put it as the shtick for a war wizard from eberron who was crippled during the last war but still adventures. (I.e. as an NPC thing).
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Wolv0rine
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*nods* It's be a good shtick for a crippled/legless wizard. But see, it's not just a special effect if the DM rules that any reasonable surface counts as "the ground". Because, like I said originally, it suddenly becomes the easiest way to cross a river, a pool of lava, or whathaveyou you can ask for. Granted, as you say you can't run or anything, but it's safe dependable movement. And it requires so little of you to sit on the thing while it does teh walking for you, you could possibly even "rest" while you travel. It does have potential for abuse, but that abuse can also be used by the DM to his/her purposes too. I think it takes the spell from being "a handy disk that carries stuff for you" and makes it into something really interesting and multidimensional. And I don't think I ever really gave it nearly so much thought before this thread. Hey, 4E's done that for me at least.Graf said:
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